TAI CHI · QIGONG · SOMATICS · JÁVEA
Hi, I'm Jay.
I teach people how to move well, through Tai Chi, Qigong and Somatics, here in Jávea. Here’s how that became my life — where I trained, who taught me, and why I teach the way I do.
From Canada to Jávea, the long way round.
I've been in martial arts for more than twenty years — and it started, in a way, with an injury. At seventeen, back in Canada, I broke my back. That's what first got me interested in how the body works — in bodywork, in recovery, in what it takes to rebuild. I thought about becoming a massage therapist or a physio. Life had other plans: I did a business degree instead and spent years working as a business consultant.
In 2010, I left that life. I moved to the Spanish Costa Blanca looking for a way of living that actually fit who I am — and that's where Tai Chi found me.Sixteen years on, it's my life's work. I've studied Tai Chi, Qigong, bodywork, Shiatsu and Chinese medicine, and I'm now working towards a PhD in Natural Medicine. For years I travelled to China to train with Master Luo Mei Juan, and to Taiwan to train under Master Richard Huang in the Huang Sheng-shyan lineage.
I've been lucky with teachers. Ferran Bonet, my first teacher here in Spain. Then Master Luo. Then Lester Heath. And now Richard Huang. Each of them gave me a different way of seeing this art, and each was exactly the teacher I needed at that point in the road. I still train with Mei when she comes to Spain, still train with Lester — and Richard is who I train under now.
The turning point was Taiwan. Months of daily training under Sifu Huang rebuilt my practice from the ground up and reshaped how I teach. In 2025, that relationship was formalised the traditional way: I was accepted as an indoor disciple — one of a small number of students entrusted with carrying the lineage forward. That same year I tested the training where it counts, competing in Taiwan and coming home a World Cup Gold Medallist.These days I teach full-time here in Jávea, coordinate my Sifu's European workshops, and keep studying. Twenty years in — still learning.
My lineage.
Tai Chi is passed down teacher to student, hand to hand — corrected, refined, and handed on. This is the line my teaching comes from:
Yang Luchan → Yang Chengfu → Cheng Man-ch'ing → Huang Sheng-shyan → Zheng Xian Qi → Richard Huang → Jay
Every generation in that line spent a lifetime refining what they were given before passing it on. What I teach in Jávea comes directly from it — and as an indoor disciple, carrying it forward properly is part of the job.
Not treatment. Training.
I teach Tai Chi as what it is — an art of real depth. But taught with precision, it does something people don't expect: it repairs the body it's training. Hips open. Shoulders release. Strength comes back. Balance rebuilds.
That's why my students range from martial artists to people recovering from surgery — and why both get exactly what they came for. The core of the training never changes, but how we get there adapts to each body. We find what you can do comfortably, and you get good at that. As you get good at it, strength and mobility build — and then you can do more. That's how capacity gets built: step by step, at the pace your body can actually absorb.
My background in bodywork and rehabilitation shapes how I teach every class. I look at each body individually — where it's weak, where it's guarding, what it needs — and adjust the training to meet it. That's the part my students mention most.
World Cup Gold Medallist · Tai Chi Lineage Holder · Indoor Disciple of Sifu Richard Huang · Trained for Years in China & Taiwan · 15+ Years of Professional Bodywork · Working Towards a PhD in Natural Medicine · 20+ Years in Martial Arts
The best way to understand is to train.
Come to a class. Feel what the fuss is about.